PLAYfiesta SG 2022 - Enter an AR Realm & Party The Night Away In Orchard Road

Hi Huneybees,

As Orchard Road lights up for the festive season, more and more events pop up for everyone to soak up the fun. Right at the heart of the shopping district comes PLAYfiesta SG 2022, a first-in-Singapore event organized by Stellar Ace, Singapore’s largest local Out Of Home (OOH) media company.

Officially launched by Ms. Low Yen Ling - Minister of State, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth & Ministry of Trade and Industry, locals and tourists alike can look forward to tonnes of fun with zones of Augmented Reality (AR) games, live performances, and a twinkling bazaar of local food and retail products.

The concept behind PLAYfiesta SG is anchored on “Play” as one of the key touchpoints of Stellar Ace’s Home-Travel-Eat-Shop-Play ecosystem, with its WINK+ app and lovable influencers, Gamer Bluey, Chef Reddy, Cashie Greeny and Shopper Pinky who will “host” PLAYfiesta SG.

PLAYfiesta SG 2022 starts from 25 Nov to 4 Dec at 37 Emerald Hill. It's nice to escape the hustle and bustle from the Christmas shopping crowd and go have some fun at the conserved Singapore Chinese Girls' School grounds; feels a little like taking the recess time break back in school days.

Stepping into the event grounds, you will find the stage with some Food and Retail stalls (featuring Singapore Made With Passion brands) surrounding it. Enjoy a little beer and snacks whilst enjoying the non-stop line-up of live performances by local musicians (such as RRILEY, and Glenn Yong), DJs, and stand-up comedians. 

Look out for Christmas Carolling, Fitness Hours (Zumba, Power Yoga, HIIT, for you to enjoy a rejuvenating workout session with your friends & family), as well as movie screenings of Puss in Boots and Shrek, with mascot appearances and prizes to win!

The highlight would be the virtual reality gaming zone - "The Mirror World". You will step into eight imaginative game worlds developed by REVEZ Motion (a local award-winning Creative Tech provider) to learn more about environmental sustainability, how to avoid online scams, and what the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) art buzz is about. 

This AR game experience for the young and old will spark the competitive streak in you as it stretches your imagination and transports you into an alternate universe to survive and thrive.

*Note: The Mirror World is a ticketed event

Monday – Thursday: S$25 per person

Friday – Sunday: S$28 per person

Tickets may be purchased at: bit.ly/playfiesta-mirrorworld

PLAYfiesta SG is held at State Property 37 Emerald Hill, previously home to the Singapore Chinese Girls School, just behind the Design Orchard building. Drop by and check out the fun activities installed!

The nearest MRT station is Somerset, and parking nearby is at The Heeren (Cairnhill Road), Orchard Building (Grange Road), or 22 Bideford Road Carpark (Bideford Road). For full event details and ticket sales, please visit www.PLAYfiesta.asia.

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[UPDATED] Get Your Promo Code for Singapore First DreamWorks Run NOW!

Hi Huneybees,

For the first time in Singapore, a DreamWorks themed carnival called the DreamWorks Day is happening on 24 June 2017 (Saturday) at Gardens By The Bay, Bay East Gardens, and I am superb looking forward to it!

Promised to be filled with games, activities, food and beverages, it is going to be fun day for everyone, young or old alike. Join Kung Fu Panda as he pursues his dream of being the dragon warrior, Shrek as he adventures with his companions, Hiccup and Toothless as they soar through the skies, Alex and friends as they work together to survive the wild!!

There will also be running events available on the day itself. Let yourkids take part in a 800m Kids Dash,or join a 5km Fun Run along some of Singapore’s iconic landmarks. Both Kids Dash (according to age group) and the 5 kilometer run are scheduled to be flagged off from 4pm and 5pm respectively.

Ticketing is mainly split between Carnival + Run / Carnival Only. Respective prices are as shown below.

Entitlements may include: Event T-shirt, Finisher Medal, Tote Bag, Running Bib, Cap, Temporary Tattoo, $10 Cash Voucher. (subjective to package purchased)

What more are you waiting for!?  From now till Friday, May 26th, 2017, you can get a 10% discount if you register at DreamWorksDay homepage using the given promo code.

10% off promo code is DWXHUNEYZWORLD

The code is unlimited and can be applied for 800m Kids Dash / 5km Fun Run. Carnival only ticket not applied).

Remember this will be expired on Friday, May 26th, 2017 so quickly register yourself and your friends and family today!

Happy Sunday!

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SHREK THE MUSICAL Was Farting-ly Awesome!

Hi Huneybees,

After so many months of anticipation, SHREK THE MUSICAL has finally opened this week at the Mastercard Theatres, Marina Bay Sands! The show was roaringly funny, brought me back to the days when Shrek first got introduced to our lives and I left the theatre still in awe over how beautifully the show was crafted and pieced together to make cartoon characters come to LIVE!

We've kinda already know the story from the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, where Shrek, an ogre comes to save the fiesty Princess Fiona from the fire-breathing Dragon protected tower, under the "enlisted" help of Lord Farquaad. He turns out to be her true love and breaks her free from her ogre curse. Just the usual fairytale...

I love that the script didn't deviate much from the original movie and even some of the jokes and puns were exactly the same, the whole jist of the movie is pretty much the same, except this was cartoon characters coming to us LIVE!

First thing that impressed me was the set background! Combining a 10m x 6m LED wall, moving sets with trees that go over 7m high and 60 scene changes, we are literally travelling and walking through forests with Shrek and Donkey on their quest to save Princess Fiona.

Next, is the powerhouse vocals. In particular Grace Leszymski as Dragon and Lindsay Estelle Dunn as Princess Fiona, with them belting their solo parts, they got the loudest claps from the audience and even standing ovation towards the end of the performance.

All in all SHREK THE MUSICAL is definitely the must-go for this school holidays. But probably due to a lack of cartoon-ness and upbeat songs, kids might not be able to stay awake throughout. We found the younger kids dozing off towards the second half of the show even though the green ogre was charming everyone else in the audience...

Be sure to catch the loveable fairy tale characters in SHREK THE MUSICAL this June holiday and check out this Meet Shrek & Princess Fiona Enchanted Tea Party package below for 17th June 2016! Other ticketing details are as follows:

TICKETING AND SHOW INFORMATION

CALENDAR EDITOR’S NOTE:
SHREK THE MUSICAL
Season: From 8 June 2016
Venue:  MasterCard Theatres at Marina Bay Sands
Cast:   International Cast

PERFORMANCE TIMES: 
Wednesday - Friday 7:30pm
Saturday: 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday: 1:00pm and 6:00pm

TICKET PRICE:  
From S$65
* Excludes the booking fee of SGD$4 per ticket

BOOKINGS: 

INTERNET:  www.MarinaBaySands.com/ticketing or www.sistic.com.sg

PHONE:   +65 6688 8826

IN PERSON AT:    
Marina Bay Sands Box Offices (Museum, Theatres, SkyPark, Retail Mall and Hotel Tower 1 Lobby).
For more information please log onto www.MarinaBaySands.com

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Does Your Kid Have What It Takes To Act Next To Shrek?

Hi Huneybees,

The one-in-a-lifetime search is on for local talent to play the loveable Baby Shrek in the international production of SHREK THE MUSICAL, which opens at The MasterCard Theatres at Marina Bay Sands on 8 June 2016, through to 19 June 2016.

6 lucky children between the ages of 7 and 12 will get to perform alongside everyone’s favourite ogre – Shrek – and other favourite fairy-tale characters such as Princess Fiona, Donkey and the Gingerbread Man in this live adaptation of the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film.

If you think your kid has got what it takes, be sure to bring him/her down to the casting call held by Base Entertainment Asia, held at MasterCard Theatres in April and those successful candidates will be notified of the date. Those interested to register for the auditions can do so at the following location United Square on 26 & 27 March.

The show’s producers are looking for children who meet the following requirements:

• They must be aged between 7 and 12 years (both boys and girls)
• They must be between 124cm and 144cm tall
• They must be available for all performances during the show’s run as it is a multi-week engagement
• The role does not require any singing or speaking but charisma and fluid movement in costume is needed
• Selected children will be required to attend rehearsals and costume fittings before performances, and to arrive one hour prior to show time

Do note that the children will have their photo taken and height measured upon registration.  A number will be provided during the registration process and they will have to quote the number at the auditions at MasterCard Theatres in April.

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Shrek The Musical To Invade Singapore

Hi Huneybees,

For the first time in Singapore, the most loveable green ogre couple is set to invade the MasterCard Theatres, Marina Bay Sands for a limited season only from 8 June 2016!

Tickets are already going on sale for this live adaptation of the popular Oscar®-winning DreamWorks Animation film -  Shrek. As part of its first ever international tour, SHREK THE MUSICAL brings the hilarious story of everyone’s favourite ogre to the stage.

"In a far away kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an ogre – not a handsome prince – shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey that does not keep quiet, a villain with a short temper, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there’s one on hand and his name is Shrek."

SHREK THE MUSICAL features a book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize® winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Good People), music by Olivier Award-winner Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline, or Change). SHREK THE MUSICAL is choreographed by Chris Bailey and directed by Stephen Sposito who served as Associate Director of the Broadway revival How to Succeed in Business starring Daniel Radcliff. Costumes are the Tony Award® winner designs by Tim Hatley (Private Lives, Spamalot).

This production of SHREK THE MUSICAL is produced by Broadway Entertainment Group FZ LLC and NETworks Presentations, LLC and presented by BASE Entertainment Asia.

USA Today calls it a “BIG FAT HIT!” and Sunday Telegraph says it is "SHREKTACULAR!", how can you give this LIVE fairytale a miss?!

TICKETING AND SHOW INFORMATION

CALENDAR EDITOR’S NOTE:
SHREK THE MUSICAL
Season: From 8 June 2016
Venue:  MasterCard Theatres at Marina Bay Sands
Cast:   International Cast

PERFORMANCE TIMES: 
Wednesday - Friday 7:30pm
Saturday: 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday: 1:00pm and 6:00pm

TICKET PRICE:  
From S$65
* Excludes the booking fee of SGD$4 per ticket

BOOKINGS: 

INTERNET:  www.MarinaBaySands.com/ticketing or www.sistic.com.sg

PHONE:   +65 6688 8826

IN PERSON AT:    
Marina Bay Sands Box Offices (Museum, Theatres, SkyPark, Retail Mall and Hotel Tower 1 Lobby).
For more information please log onto www.MarinaBaySands.com

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The World’s First 27” All-in-One Workstation - HP Z1

Hi Huneybees,

Last Friday, HP unveiled the world’s first 27-inch All-in-One Workstation, the HP Z1; alongside new additions to its powerful, industry leading line of HP Z Workstations, during their annual Workstations Solutions World event in Asia Pacific.

"As the workstation industry leader, HP continues to invest in technology that allows our customers to push the limits of innovation. Our investments in R&D and technology have led to workstations that meet and exceed the needs of the world’s most demanding customers.” --- Jim Zafarana, Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Solutions Business Unit, HP

 Introduction by Miss Serena Yong (GM of HP)

Miss Anneliese Olson (VP of HP Client Solutions, Accesories and Services) told us the many uses & advantages of choosing HP Workstations

 

Attentive listening to customers feedback and innovative technology, HP Workstations have evolved over the years.

 

Companies use HP workstations to design everything from running shoes to race cars, animated characters to deep-sea submersibles, and to manage everything from billions of dollars of tradable securities to mission-critical IT environments.

HP Workstations are definitely the choice for people who does heavy duty computer work, graphics, stocks, animations and even medical. One such example would be Dreamworks' big screen animations are always done using HP workstations. That's where Shrek is born!

Miss Serena Yong together with her colleagues revealing the super WOW 27" All-in-One Workstation: HP Z1. It's designed like no other and functions without the need of a Tower - CPU.

HP Z1 – The World’s First 27” All-in-One Workstation

 

  
The display of the new HP Z1 Workstation snaps open so users can easily swap out parts and make upgrades without any tools required. It combines a sleek industrial design with accelerated performance featuring Intel^® Xeon^® processors, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, support for more than 1 billion colors and HP’s world-class reliability. 

 

The HP Z1 can even be mounted to save space especially when you are working within a cubicle! Architects can now lay their drawings flat on table or artists can have their tablets on the table, drawing freely!  Built for computer-aided design, digital media and entertainment professionals, the HP Z1 provides blazingly fast rendering and performance. It offers a full range of workstation-class graphics cards and processors, and is thoroughly tested and certified to work with today’s leading industry applications. 

Whether it’s an engineer creating 3-D components, an architect designing buildings or a videographer editing event footage, the HP Z1 gives creative professionals the power they need to bring ideas to life faster.  

“The revolutionary HP Z1 sets a new industry standard for workstation design, performance and serviceability. With its game-changing design and an experience that optimizes visual and computing performance, the HP Z1 will help attract new customers and expand our market leadership.” --- Jim Zafarana, vice president and general manager, Commercial Solutions Business Unit, HP

 

You can now bring your disk drives everywhere you go. Save the trouble of having to stick labels on you CDs and end up jamming the disk drives.

 

 

 

 Hmmm, it's like playing with LEGOs!

 

 

HP Z1 is a workstation that performs without compromise where you can customize it the way you want to with a variety of I/O options, including USB 3.0 for blazing fast speeds and your choice of optical drives, like the slot-load Blu-ray Writer. Choose from a variety of storage types, including 7.2K and 10K SATA, SSD Options, optional RAID configurations and a media card reader.

Space for 2 hard drives.

The speakers are standalone and away from the components, so that your blasting music will not vibrate and "injure" the components.

• Workstation performance Features professional NVIDIA Quadro graphics, ECC memory, quad-core Intel^® Xeon^® processors, independent software vendor solutions and whisper-quiet acoustics.
• Tool-less chassis Users can easily add a hard drive, upgrade memory or access the graphics card by snapping open the chassis to swap out parts.
• Workstation-class storage Users can choose from a variety of storage types, including 7.2K and 10K SATA, SSD, optional RAID configurations, removable drives (AMO), a multiformat media card reader and optical drives including a slot-load Blu-ray Writer.
• Professional display The 27-inch diagonal wide LED display supports more than 1 billion colors and features a wide, 178-degree viewing angle and an in-plane switching (IPS) panel.
• High-fidelity audio Front-facing dual-cone speakers and SRS Premium Sound offer high-fidelity audio.
• HD Webcam Have face-to-face meetings and see every detail right down to the twinkle of an eye. Also captures HD-quality video.
• HP Remote Graphics Software Users can work remotely while still accessing the high-performance 2-D, 3-D, video and media-rich applications they count on.
• HP Performance Advisor  Reduces the time spent troubleshooting by providing a consolidated report of the workstation’s hardware and software configuration that can be used to tune the workstation for specifically professional application workloads with just one click.

Then, there's also the announcement of the  new Z820, Z620 and Z420 that feature the latest eight-core Intel^® Xeon^® processor E5-2600 product family, offer up to 512 gigabytes (GB) of DDR3 memory, and support multithreaded workstation applications that professionals rely on. 

 

The latest additions to the industry-leading line of HP Z Workstations also feature third generation PCI Express technology, providing customers increased performance and seamless integration of new graphics cards.

 

Check out the difference between the old Towers and the new ones. It's so much cleaner, air flow is easyily reached for cooling aid and every component is easy to move for customization to every users' need.

The new Z820, Z620 and Z420 feature the latest eight-core Intel^® Xeon^® processor E5-2600 product family, offer up to 512 gigabytes (GB) of DDR3 memory, and support multithreaded workstation applications that professionals rely on.

There's also USB 3.0 ports too.

The latest additions to the industry-leading line of HP Z Workstations also feature third-generation PCI Express technology, providing customers increased performance and seamless integration of new graphics cards.

The disk drive holder.

Engineered to meet mainstream computing and visualization needs for customers in CAD, architecture, video editing and photography, the HP Z420 includes up to eight processing cores using the latest Intel^® Xeon^® processor E5-1600 and E5-2600 product families, providing up to 64 GB of ECC memory, up to 11 TB of high-speed storage, and up to NVIDIA Quadro 5000 or dual NVIDIA Quadro 2000 graphics.

Power button on the front and back for easy restart while fixing comps. Save the trouble of going back and forth.

For quiet ennironments with minimal space, the HP Z620 is a great choice for customers in 
financial services, video, animation, architecture and midrange CAD. Updated to support both 
single and dual-socket processors, the powerful and versatile HP Z620 provides up to 16 
processing cores, up to 96 GB of ECC memory, up to 11 TB of high-speed storage, and 
professional 2-D and 3-D graphics up to NVIDIA Quadro 6000 or dual NVIDIA Quadro 5000 
graphics.

 

 

Check out the number of fans for cooling! But don't worry about noise, they are all so minimal, never interfere with you video or sound editing works. 

Cooling Pad.

Engineered for the most demanding and computer-intensive visualization needs, the HP Z820 is ideal for customers in oil and gas, mechanical computer-aided design (CAD), mechanical computer-aided engineering, medical, video and animation. The HP Z820 provides up to 16 processing cores, up to 512 GB of ECC memory, up to 15 terabytes (TB) of high-speed storage and up to dual NVIDIA Quadro 6000 graphics.  

 

HP Monitors provide crisp and accurate colours from any angle of viewing, making use of the 

In-Plane Switching (IPS) Technology and also with the HP DreamColor Engine technology, colour 

accuracy is achieved. 

The new HP Z Workstations include 90-percent-efficient power supplies – reducing both overall energy usage and the amount of waste heat released. The HP Z line is registered EPEAT Gold and offers ENERGY STAR^® qualified configurations. All HP Z Workstations offer BFR/PVC free configurations and more than 90 percent recyclable by weight.

The HP Z1 Workstation and the HP Z420, Z620 and Z820 will be available in Singapore from mid-April. Pricing will be advised at a later date.

Additional information is available at www.hp.com.sg. 

Psst, other than desktop Workstations, HP also offers a range of powerful mobile workstations and accessories for your computer needs.

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